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Subjectivity across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Subjectivity across Media Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives

Edited By Maike Sarah Reinerth, Jan-Noël Thon Copyright 2017
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds. Hence, media can be understood as "qualia machines," as technologies that allow for the production of subjective experiences within the affordances and limitations posed by the conventions... Read more

Introduction: Subjectivity across Media



Maike Sarah Reinerth and Jan-Noël Thon



PART I: VERBAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY



1. The Expression of Subjectivity in Fiction: The Case of Internal Focalization



Tilmann Köppe



2. Child Minds through Gaps and Metaphors: On Two Strategies for Consciousness Representation in Literary Narrative



Marco Caracciolo and Cécile Guédon



3. Cybernetic and Kinetic: Representing Subjectivity in Digital Fiction



David Ciccoricco



PART II: VERBAL-PICTORIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY



4. The Body at Work: Subjectivity in Graphic Memoir



Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri



5. Visible Hand? Subjectivity and Its Stylistic Markers in Graphic Narratives



Lukas Etter



6. The Drawn-Out Gaze of the Cartoon: A Psychosemiotic Look at Subjectivity in Comic Book Storytelling



Stephan Packard



PART III: AUDIOVISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY



7. Experiencing Extended Point-of-View Shots: A Film-Phenomenological Perspective on Extreme Character Subjectivity



Julian Hanich



8. Color and Subjectivity in Film



Barbara Flueckiger



9. Immersed in History Films: Subjectivity, Memory, and Fictional Privilege



Casper Tybjerg



PART IV: INTERACTIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY



10. Film Aesthetics and Interactive Representations of Subjectivity in Video Games



Benjamin Beil



11. Walk a Mile in My Shoes: Subjectivity and Embodiment in Video Games



Felix Schröter



12. "As Only a Game Can": Re-creating Subjective Lived Experiences through Interactivity in Non-Fictional Video Games



Evelyn Chew and Alex Mitchell

Biography

Maike Sarah Reinerth is a Research Associate for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Research interests include representations of subjectivity (Ph.D. project), cognitive film theory, and animation studies. Her most recent publication is "Metaphors of the Mind in Film: A Cognitive-Cultural Perspective" (Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games, 2016).





Jan-Noël Thon is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Tuebingen, Germany. Research interests include film studies, television studies, comics studies, game studies, transmedial narratology, media convergence, and post/documentary in digital media culture. He has published widely in these areas, most recently Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture (2016).

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